and ment throughout the Sheffield labour movement..The women are as efficient and as adamant as the men about the occupation, which is pretty solid and can be built on.' The strike committee has now called for a one-day stoppage on 5 November in all the Sheffield plants of the Edgar Allan group. Edgar Allan took over Balfour Darwin seven months ago, and its aim seems to be to transfer engineering operations to its Manchester works. But instead of calling for the outright nationalisation of the special steels industry to protect jobs - a wave of redundancies is sweep ing the private steels sector in Sheffield at the present time - the stewards are. only calling for talks with management around future investment DAY OF ACTION The International Marxist Group in Sheffield is campaigning for 5 November to be turned into a real day of action against unemployment, through a speaking and leafleting campaign round the factories culminating in a giant jobs rally in the city centre. At the same time the call by Tony Hope for a demonstration in Sheffield against unemployment must be taken up. The AUEW is calling another special shop stewards meeting to discuss the demo and how to take the fight against unemployment forward, but so far no date has been set for this.
The date must be set now, and mass leafleting and speaking tours of all the local engineer ing factories arranged so that the demo can be built and all-out strike action launched on 26 November - the day of the big jobs lobby in London. The Trades Council has voted to support the lobby, but as yet it has done nothing except lay on coaches. A massive contingent of striking Sheffield workers marching in solidarity with the Balfour Darwin occupation on 26 November would be an important step towards organising the fight for jobs.
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